Apple sues Corellium, which lets users run iOS firmware in a web browser

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12 points·bookofjoe··4 comments

Anyone here use Corellium? From marketing descriptions it just sounds like they made a hypervisor that can run iOS, which doesn't sound illegitimate to my. I'm assuming that Apple would have to go at it in a distribution-of-iOS-firmware direction to have this case hold any water.

This is just my opinion/conjecture, but I would assume that Apple just doesn't like the idea of the core product. I personally don't understand why a company that bases itself on morals would find issue with a tool like this. With introduction of things like the T2 chips in their computer product line, I would assume they have a real problem with people running their software on anything that's not an Apple branded device.

Are they actually running iOS firmware in a web browser, or is this more like an advanced version of BrowserStack, where the firmware is running on a server or a physical device?

There was a previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20710565

But to answer your question, It is actually running stock Apple iOS firmware on a ARM hypervisor which Corellium has created and they are relaying the screen output onto the web from the hypervisor.

You can think of Corellium as like a enterprise-grade Docker, but for iOS and Android apps.

Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20710565

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